Reasons I HATE APPLE or Mac
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Originally Posted by SpudRacer,Mar 13 2010, 10:55 AM
Apple on the other hand just invented a portable content delivery device using a custom processor and hi-res capacitive touchscreen along with lining up content creators, a content delivery platform, an operating system designed to eliminate the need for a keyboard and facilitate mobile computing, plus an army of developers to take advantage of all the preceding innovations, not to mention a suite of native applications that take full advantage of the unique OS and hardware. Yep, Apple is certainly no Microsoft. Thankfully!
Meanwhile, Microsoft and pals promise the next flawed iteration of a desktop operating system on generic hardware with the mandatory keyboard.....someday.....maybe. No matter, the world is not waiting for a tablet PC. Perhaps a decade is not long enough for you to process that message. Keep trying.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and pals promise the next flawed iteration of a desktop operating system on generic hardware with the mandatory keyboard.....someday.....maybe. No matter, the world is not waiting for a tablet PC. Perhaps a decade is not long enough for you to process that message. Keep trying.
There's a whole lot of other similar tablets out there, so if we're using "invented" that loosely Apple is eight or nine years behind the ball on their invention. Is 1024x768 really high resolution to you? I realize that that's what Apple calls it, but "high resolution" is a meaningless phrase. It's about what you'd expect from a 10" display, but nothing to brag about.. Capacitive multitouch displays are already here, nothing new there either. And I'd love to watch you send an email on your iPad without using a keyboard. Voice recognition is a pain in the ass, typing just works better. There's a reason the iPad dock comes with a full sized keyboard. Hunching over and trying to type on that onscreen keyboard doesn't seem very fun. It's not like you can't download keyboard apps to use on Windows based tablets so you can hunch over the tablet while the onscreen keyboard takes up half the screen. Again, the keyboard aint mandatory it's just stupid not to use it if you're actually going to type anything. Ditto for the iPad.
Why is having a unique operating system that can't multitask and can't run basic software a good thing? FFS, it doesn't even run Flash. Half the internet uses Flash. Things like Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, NY Times, etc, all will either not work at all or be partially broken.
I guess I'll just wait for another failed iteration of Windows Tablets. They might suck as well, but at least they run software, multitask, support Flash, and come with USB ports.
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Originally Posted by HKStallion,Mar 13 2010, 04:01 PM
All this from a device that he has probably never seen or touched. (maybe he has because he can afford lots of computers)
To which end, a lot of things (not all) are solvable if you throw enough money at it.
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Originally Posted by C U AT 9K,Mar 12 2010, 12:25 PM
Haha well there's a backspace key (which is called delete) but there's no delete key! You know, the one that's usually next to insert on a PC keyboard.
I want to has it.
I want to has it.
or is that different.
seems like
Fn + Delete works the same way.
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Originally Posted by Malloric,Mar 13 2010, 03:03 PM
Err...
There's a whole lot of other similar tablets out there, so if we're using "invented" that loosely Apple is eight or nine years behind the ball on their invention. Is 1024x768 really high resolution to you? I realize that that's what Apple calls it, but "high resolution" is a meaningless phrase. It's about what you'd expect from a 10" display, but nothing to brag about.. Capacitive multitouch displays are already here, nothing new there either. And I'd love to watch you send an email on your iPad without using a keyboard. Voice recognition is a pain in the ass, typing just works better. There's a reason the iPad dock comes with a full sized keyboard. Hunching over and trying to type on that onscreen keyboard doesn't seem very fun. It's not like you can't download keyboard apps to use on Windows based tablets so you can hunch over the tablet while the onscreen keyboard takes up half the screen. Again, the keyboard aint mandatory it's just stupid not to use it if you're actually going to type anything. Ditto for the iPad.
Why is having a unique operating system that can't multitask and can't run basic software a good thing? FFS, it doesn't even run Flash. Half the internet uses Flash. Things like Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, NY Times, etc, all will either not work at all or be partially broken.
I guess I'll just wait for another failed iteration of Windows Tablets. They might suck as well, but at least they run software, multitask, support Flash, and come with USB ports.
There's a whole lot of other similar tablets out there, so if we're using "invented" that loosely Apple is eight or nine years behind the ball on their invention. Is 1024x768 really high resolution to you? I realize that that's what Apple calls it, but "high resolution" is a meaningless phrase. It's about what you'd expect from a 10" display, but nothing to brag about.. Capacitive multitouch displays are already here, nothing new there either. And I'd love to watch you send an email on your iPad without using a keyboard. Voice recognition is a pain in the ass, typing just works better. There's a reason the iPad dock comes with a full sized keyboard. Hunching over and trying to type on that onscreen keyboard doesn't seem very fun. It's not like you can't download keyboard apps to use on Windows based tablets so you can hunch over the tablet while the onscreen keyboard takes up half the screen. Again, the keyboard aint mandatory it's just stupid not to use it if you're actually going to type anything. Ditto for the iPad.
Why is having a unique operating system that can't multitask and can't run basic software a good thing? FFS, it doesn't even run Flash. Half the internet uses Flash. Things like Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, NY Times, etc, all will either not work at all or be partially broken.
I guess I'll just wait for another failed iteration of Windows Tablets. They might suck as well, but at least they run software, multitask, support Flash, and come with USB ports.
Touch OS that actually works (and does multi-task)
Touch optimized native applications
SSD
Processor optimized for portable devices
~10" capacitive touch screen running 1024 X768 or better (and yes, that's fine in a 10" device)
1.5 Lb weight
10 hour Polymer Li ion battery life
Distribution deals with major content providers for books, magazines, newspapers, music, and movies
150,000 cheap applications
1,000's of developers
World class content delivery platform
Developers toolkit for $99
$500 price
Well, where are they? Since Apple is 10 years late to the party, you must have beaucoup examples of much more advanced Windows tablets to put forward. I can't wait to see these great offerings. But I suspect I may end up waiting for a very long time nonetheless.
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Personally, my take on the iPad is that it is just a large screened iPhone that isnt a phone. 
That being said, I *could* just say that many of the smartphone makers out there (HTC being a prominent manufacturer) could supersize their phone offerings too and have exactly what you are listing.
a TouchPro 2 is...to quote the words of a user on the [H]ardforums "more touch oriented than your fisher-price device" while talking to an iPhone user
I dont have a TouchPro2 or an iPhone, but I found the comment funny.
BUT...they havent made such a thing, so I cant argue with you.
They could, but then the question is why...the same question I ask about the iPad.
And to nitpick one little detail, the majority of "native" applications are native to the overall OS but designed for the iPhone/iPod Touch which means they are all VERY low res and look like crap on the iPad, for now.
That being said, I *could* just say that many of the smartphone makers out there (HTC being a prominent manufacturer) could supersize their phone offerings too and have exactly what you are listing.
a TouchPro 2 is...to quote the words of a user on the [H]ardforums "more touch oriented than your fisher-price device" while talking to an iPhone user
I dont have a TouchPro2 or an iPhone, but I found the comment funny.BUT...they havent made such a thing, so I cant argue with you.
They could, but then the question is why...the same question I ask about the iPad.
And to nitpick one little detail, the majority of "native" applications are native to the overall OS but designed for the iPhone/iPod Touch which means they are all VERY low res and look like crap on the iPad, for now.